It’s only a 43lb heavier engine, assuming they didn’t do anything to make the 5.0 lighter. And a small increase in COG (Maybe upwards a whole inch or so?)

Looking at the damage and the somewhat corroded state of the cords... These tires were probably a little too old, and i bet the date code would have put them at 7-10 years out.

Since Jalopnik now has proper media-connected overlords (Univision.. who owns stuff like the onion, among others), they most likely must have RIGHTS for every stock image they use that are properly documented. This would include releases from models, etc. Since Univision sort of got stomped by a few of the major…

Problem.

None, NASCAR limits telemetry to none during the race. The onscreen stuff is for TV and co-ordinators only, and is delayed from the actual race. The pit crew/engineer and driver are restricted to voice communications only.

Ford gets more money, and lets be honest, it’s still a pretty damn rare car.

Fords selection process was picking prior owners of Ford GTs, brand ambassadors, etc. Only a few people getting them aren’t ‘gear heads.’ I’d say more than you expect.

The real lesson here is, money talks.

Nothing odd here, just some rodents making nests. I have had a vehicle that was 2 months old have similar nests in it after sitting in the dealer lot before getting put on the sales line.

Yeaaah....

Not if you play the CYA game in an intelligent way. For example, CCing the company lawyer, and keeping local copies of the messages where this was said. :P

Those meeting are happening at my company right now, for a system wide outage of our financial transaction system, at a multi-billion dollar financial company. It’s ugly, and our vendor is squirming HARD, along with the SVP of IT... I might be getting bumped up from VP of IT soon...

Oh, no kidding. Within the MAINTENANCE budget for our main servers, Iput in 2 all new SSD compellent SANs, replicated to one another, with hourly snapshotting, and 2 week retention. Along with 2 new UCS chassis, 2 new fabrics, 2 new 5548UP switches, a pair of nexus core switches, 8 blades with 512gb of ram each, and…

Ah.

A large finance company I work for (billions+) had been running their Transaction systems (AIX) on a single server, with a single storage backend controller. An out of contract, out of warranty IBM FC SAN unit. Eyup, the financial accounts, transactions, and of 120,000 clients

Meh, it’s more likely that whoever picked the RTO (recovery time objective) of more than.. say... 1 hour, will probably get smacked around and dismissed. But the blame game comes AFTER the ‘OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK GET IT WORKING’ game.

Close! But a network/systems administrator isn’t enough head-rolling for this. Most likely, some Assistant Vice President of IT who was chosen to handle DR (but didn’t really know it) will get reprimanded, POSSIBLY dismissed. Then they will pass down the blame to [Insert Name of provider, usually IBM] and money will…

Overrun, not overcook.

Hyndai is marketing Genesis now as it’s own brand, with the 5.0L Equus folded into it. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Kia SUV getting a badge-engineered version to round out their offerings, and killing of the k900.

I’m not on the tesla bandwagon myself, not the self driving/lane keeping crap. But we hear about Tesla a bunch because the media has a pretty big stiffy over the views it gets.